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Progress reports from grassroot charities on GlobalGiving.co.ukEmpowerment of 6000 Adolescent Girls in India: "Empowerment of 6,000 girls in India"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/Mzl93C3lhVI/proj16826d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95907/empowerment-of-6000-adolescent-girls-in-india-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/16826/Seema_Small.jpg' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><strong>Empowerment of 6,000 girls in India: Preventing Child marriage and Early Conception</strong></p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;Life skills education classes taught me that a girl should not get married before 18. I told my parents and stuck to it. I will only get married after I finish my higher education.&rdquo; Seema*, aged 16</em></p>
<p><strong>Preventing child marriage </strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;When an adolescent girl becomes a child bride she loses her chance to finish her education. Seema*, aged 16, lives in rural Maharashtra where her father earns a limited income from farming. Her father only wished to pay for her brother&rsquo;s schools fees and wanted to make Seema a bride at just 15 years of age. &nbsp;We selected Seema for life skills education as part of our program to &ldquo;Empower 6,000 girls in India&rdquo;. As a result, she developed enough self-confidence and self-efficacy to challenge her father&rsquo;s plans: even managing to enlist the support of her uncle and aunt in her plight. All Semma desired was to finish her education. An entitlement so many take for granted. However, for girls at risk of becoming child brides finishing school is a right that is truly treasured.</p>
<p>Increasing confidence in vulnerable adolescent girls &ndash; as well as educating them about their rights &ndash; provides them with effective skills to maintain their status as single girls until they are old enough to marry. Since 2013 we have reached 32 villages and 1200 girls, reducing the number of vulnerable adolescent girls marrying before 18 by 15%. &nbsp;Your support has been integral in this reduction in the number of child brides in rural Maharashtra.</p>
<p>We are now extending these classes to include training on how to use tablets and the internet. These skills are not taught as part of the girl&rsquo;s formal education and will be of invaluable use to them in their studies and in their future lives.</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sexual and reproductive health education</strong></p>
<p>Despite our many success stories the practice of child marriage is still common in the state of Maharashtra. The majority of girls are still getting married before the age of 18. These child brides are at risk of becoming pregnant when their bodies are not ready for the strain of pregnancy.</p>
<p>Pregnancy is risky for women at any age. However, young girls have an especially high risk of miscarriage, complications in pregnancy and have a 5 fold increase in maternal and neonatal mortality rates. To reduce the number of these risky pregnancies, comprehensively trained community health workers, employed by IHMP, offer free workshops on contraception and natural family planning methods. This knowledge will help to delay the age at which child brides have their first child and help them to control the size of their family in the future. If an adolescent girl does become pregnant, the community health workers will ensure that they attend monthly check-ups, eat a nutritionally balanced diet and seek appropriate treatment if complication do arise.</p>
<p>In addition to rural area programs, we are also in the initial stages of implementing a reproductive, sexual health and family planning project in 12 slums in the city of Pune. After the first month of implementation, the community health workers reached 755 married girls with their services and the number of pregnant adolescent girls receiving antenatal care increased by 81.8%. Furthermore, the percentage of the pregnant women that sort treatment for reproductive tract infections increased by 12.4%.</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Tackling gender issues in society </strong></p>
<p>Our projects are not only helping the girls who attend the courses but also aim to change deeply ingrained social attitudes that deny women the same opportunities as men. The next generation will continue to benefit from our work as these adolescent girls want to ensure that their own daughters complete their education.</p>
<p><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;I will make sure my daughter studies well and gets a job for herself. I want her to be financial independent.&rdquo; </em></p>
<p><em>Sunita* aged 15</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;Additionally, our programme includes workshops to educate married and unmarried adolescent boys, which are run by male peer leaders. These workshops encourage discussion on gender discrimination, gender based violence and male dominance. &nbsp;We believe that open conversation and male-male discussions that challenge gender based discrimination is crucial in changing society&rsquo;s attitudes towards women - and in tackling the issue of child marriage for generations to come.&nbsp; Identification and acknowledgement of the problem is the first step in enacting change.</p>
<p>At the projects current scale, 240 youth have attended these workshops.</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Reaching our goal of 6,000</strong></p>
<p>With your continued support and generosity we hope to be able to expand the number of rural villages that we are able to run our programmes in. We are currently carrying out an extensive census to collect information on vulnerable adolescent girls in 2 further areas in rural Maharashtra : this would result in the programme being scaled up to another 51 villages. Alongside the census, IHMP staff members have conducted community meetings to introduce the programs to the community. The main objective of these meetings is to create a conducive environment for the projects to be run in the village, a technique which has proved to be very effective in the villages already involved in our programs.</p>
<p>Without support from you, our donors, our work would not be possible. The staff at IHMP and our beneficiaries are ever grateful for your generosity and continued interest in our work. Thank you.</p>
<p>For more information about our work please visit our Facebook page at: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AdolescentGirlProject">https://www.facebook.com/AdolescentGirlProject</a> and our Twitter at: <a href="https://twitter.com/IHMP_Pune">https://twitter.com/IHMP_Pune</a><span>. </span></p>
<p><span>Our website in currently being redesigned and will be completed in September. </span></p>
<p>*all beneficiary names in this report have been changed&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95908/empowerment-of-6000-adolescent-girls-in-india-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/16826/Sunita_Small.jpg' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95909/empowerment-of-6000-adolescent-girls-in-india-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/16826/Mens_workshop_Small.jpg' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95910/empowerment-of-6000-adolescent-girls-in-india-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/16826/Happy_Girls_Small.jpg' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div></div>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:12:29 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/16900/proj16826d.html#progressReportLinkHannah Schober2015-08-14T18:12:29Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/16900/proj16826d.html#progressReportLinkSafe Drinking Water for 40 schools in Bolivia: "My first soap production experience"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/6KZEus4npX8/proj9871d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95814/we-got-soap-photo-from-progress-report-my-first-soap-pr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9871/P1140220_Small.JPG' alt='We got soap !'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>We got soap !</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Dear supporter,</p>
<p>In this report we want to share with you some experiences and activities that had a volunteer working in the school on the soap Project.</p>
<p>-- My first soap production experience --</p>
<p><em>"As I&rsquo;m neither a chemist nor an economist, I proposed that I could help looking for solutions together and discussing possible problems. I went the next day and met de teachers responsible for the manufacture of soaps.</em></p>
<p><em>The teachers listed the ingredients and steps of production and the problems they have when the result is not good. They said the consistency of the soaps sometimes is very dry and sometimes is too wet.</em></p>
<p><em>Ok so let&rsquo;s start!</em></p>
<p><em>We put pots and a kitchen, the bicim&aacute;quina, buckets, kitchen utensils and some goggles and gloves for protection in the playground of the school.</em></p>
<p><em>Some students helped lay the butter in pots, and the teachers did the rest of the works. They heated butter, mixed it with caustic soda, dyes and aroma put on mass and mixed all of it with the bicim&aacute;quina for about an hour.</em></p>
<p><em>And Tada!</em></p>
<p><em>In the end they poured the soap in small buckets and on a tray. So the soap can dry few days.</em></p>
<p><em>Then I went back but the soaps were still very wet and we decided to leave them in the buckets</em></p>
<p><em>Finally it took more than 3 weeks &hellip; It was clear they were not satisfied with the production as it was at this time &hellip; but we got soap!! &ldquo;</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thanks to the volunteer&rsquo;s help, we are now working to improve some steps of the soap production:</p>
<ul>
<li>Involving more student in the process of making soap</li>
<li>Improving safety in the manufacture of soap, four gloves and goggles are not enough and caustic soda is very toxic</li>
<li>The recipe: the teachers produce as they have in mind. That's fine, but when would like to improve something, they do not know how it should be.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>But at the same time we have to keep in mind that, this is a rural school with not a lot of financial resources but they use what they have. Also providing hand washing a key moment and hygiene.</p>
<p>We thank you in advance for your support. And feel free to reach us if you have some questions and comments!</p>
<p>With warm greetings from the whole project team,</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95815/mixing-everything-photo-from-progress-report-my-first-s/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9871/P1140188_Small.JPG' alt='Mixing everything'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Mixing everything</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95816/safe-drinking-water-for-40-schools-in-bolivia-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9871/P1140193_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95817/safe-drinking-water-for-40-schools-in-bolivia-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9871/P1140215_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95818/safe-drinking-water-for-40-schools-in-bolivia-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9871/P1140219_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95819/safe-drinking-water-for-40-schools-in-bolivia-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9871/P1140295_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95820/safe-drinking-water-for-40-schools-in-bolivia-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9871/P1140306_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div></div>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:51:45 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/9900/proj9871d.html#progressReportLinkJeremy Maes2015-08-14T12:51:45Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/9900/proj9871d.html#progressReportLinkSupport 320 orphans with goats in Uganda: "Support 320 Orphans with goats in Uganda"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/k8SbdxfVZkw/proj7528d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95821/a-widow-rearing-a-goat-for-orphans-got-from-kado-photo/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/7528/a_widow_rearing_a_she_goat_given_to_her__orphan__by_KADO_Under_global_giving_progam_Small.JPG' alt='A WIDOW REARING A GOAT FOR ORPHANS GOT FROM KADO'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>A WIDOW REARING A GOAT FOR ORPHANS GOT FROM KADO</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><strong>Summary of project activities </strong></p>
<p>This is quarterly activity report on Support to 320 orphans with improved goat in Uganda project in Eastern Uganda, in the Districts of Kibuku, Budaka and Pallisa with financial support of donors under Global Giving provision and the community. The organization together with beneficiaries appreciates all donors for the support of the project. Global Giving team is appreciated for the wonderful work being done that has enabled the organization to receive support to manage the project. The report expresses the development made in the May-July quarter. It is compiled and disseminated to our stakeholders to enable them get the progress of the project. The details of the report is the current status of the orphans, project challenges recommendations and testimony from at least a beneficiary.</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Current status of Support 320 orphans with improved goats project</strong></p>
<p>KADO is building the capacity of OVCs and their households in goat&rsquo;s management through training, breading, dissemination of the goats to the selected OVCs and provision of advisory services. However, many Orphans and vulnerable children have not received goats. The rate of bleeding is low because of limited breeder she-goat and this has made project realize limited impact. Some of our OVCs in schools study without uniform, school meals and at times lack scholastic materials due to limited household income of the caregivers.</p>
<p>In the last quarter, the organization managed to implement the following;</p>
<ol>
<li><strong> </strong>Monitored project activities in 13 OVC households and met 18 OVCs</li>
<li><strong> </strong>Provided treatment for 16 goats in 8 OVC households</li>
<li><strong> </strong>Provided one orphan a she goat</li>
</ol>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Challenges</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>High cost of improved breeder goats:</strong> The organization relies majorly on donor funding and each donor has priority areas for their funds.</li>
<li><strong>Increased OVCs going for child labour: </strong>Whereas there is universal primary school programme in the country where children do not pay school fees, there is need for payment of meals and scholastic materials. Lack funds to pay for the above requirements, forces children to go for child labour, early marriages, conduct cross generation sex and are at risk to HIV/AIDS.</li>
<li><strong> </strong> <strong>Low project cash flow. </strong></li>
</ol>
<p>The organization has got limited donors funding the projectand the communities where the project is located, most of the people are subsistence farmers with low income to male community contribution.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Recommendation</strong></p>
<p>The organization continues to request all donors to be part of us and have a helping hand to this&nbsp;&nbsp; project for the social economic welfare of children particularly in Kibuku and Budaka districts</p>
<p><strong>Testimony from one beneficiary</strong></p>
<p>Musana &nbsp;is the son of late of Kapio of&nbsp;&nbsp; Kaderuna Sub County in Budaka district, Eastern Uganda. Musana is a 17 year old boy who is living with his uncle because the mother is helpless. Musana was being utilized by bricklayers on construction sites to provide unskilled labour. The project leader identified Musana on a construction site when he was monitoring the project. The project leader counseled him to go back to school such that he utilizes the opportunity of the Uganda secondary education. However, Musana refused saying he was comfortable has he was getting some money. He asked the organization to provide him with a sustainable income generation project such that he would go back to school next year when assured of income generation to pay for the school dues. The organization resolved to empower the helpless mother of Musana with a goats rearing project and she was given a she goat. Currently, musana is working while aware of going back to school and has started saving some money with the organization such that he will be added when he goes back to school. He vows to take a short course in bricklaying because it the course he has gained interest in. This is true story and explains the work of KADO in relation to our project of support 320 OVCs with improved goats in Uganda. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Prepared by</p>
<p>Samson Namwoyo</p>
<p>Project leader</p><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.kagumudevelopment.org">kagumu development economic empowerment project</a></li><li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/kado.org">kagumu development economic empowerment project</a></li></ul></p></div>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:33:55 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/7600/proj7528d.html#progressReportLinkSamson Namwoyo2015-08-14T12:33:55Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/7600/proj7528d.html#progressReportLinkHelp 60 UK children reach eye cancer treatment: "Father had to leave salaried position"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/vNIaXSwoO6Y/proj18676d.html
<div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>J was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma (cancer in both eyes) in August 2013, aged only 3 months. So far he has undergone the removal of one eye and 6 cycles of chemotherapy.&nbsp;&nbsp; His treatment also requires laser and/or cryotherapy directly to tumours in his remaining eye.</p>
<p>During this time J's parents have had to make numerous and frequent visits to three different hospitals:</p>
<p>The Royal London Hospital for regular examinations under anaesthetic and any local treatment he requires.&nbsp; These visits will continue until he is approximately 5 years old.</p>
<p>Great Ormond Street Hospital for insertion of a central line that will deliver chemotherapy and also for treatment for any side effects this invasive but potentially sight and life saving will have on him</p>
<p>Harlow Hospital for admissions when unwell during chemotherapy and prosthetic appointments for his artificial eye.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Although J's parents are not in receipt of benefits, his mother was originally receiving maternity pay, which has ended. She will be returning to work on very reduced hours because of J's condition and the potential for ongoing unknown need for further treatment, as well as regular examinations under anaesthetic.&nbsp;</p>
<p>J's father has needed to use all of his annual leave and take unpaid leave for J's hospital appointments and stays. He has had to leave his salaried position and work on commission only due to the need for him to take time off work so frequently.&nbsp;&nbsp; This has had a significant impact on the family's financial position.</p>
<p>Through the generosity of its supporters and donors like yourself we are able to help&nbsp;ease the financial burden just a little for families with children undergoing treatment for cancer. We would like to do this every year a child is in treatment but we simply don't have the funds. &nbsp;Please help if you can. Thank you.</p>
<p>To find out more about our work subscribe to our CHECT blog. &nbsp;</p><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://chectblog.com/">CHECT blog</a></li></ul></p></div>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:02:20 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/18700/proj18676d.html#progressReportLinkFiona Heath2015-08-14T11:02:20Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/18700/proj18676d.html#progressReportLinkCreate a TB Photovoice project in Kenya: "Moving Forward and Upward"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/8cJNf60gz_U/proj6600d.html
<div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Dear Friends,</p>
<p>Once a week, I am so fortunate to Skype with the Nakuru Kenya photovoice facilitator, Alice Opiyo. We usually start out our calls talking about our families, as we both can see the action taking place in our respected livingrooms! Her 9-year old son Essence often talks with my 13-year old son Casey, while our two crazy dogs show-off their playing skills in the background! These weekly conversations about the logistics of the program have been very helpful to the TB Photovoice team as Alice prepares to lead the first photovoice session in the next few weeks. There isn't much to report during this prep time since we are all waiting for the final pieces to be put into action. Alice has methodically communicated with the participants and they are all looking forward to the big day. I will send an update to you when this first meeting takes place.</p>
<p>On other fronts, TB Photovoice has been invited to share our successes at the <a href="http://capetown.worldlunghealth.org/">46th Union World Conference on Lung Health</a> this coming December in Cape Town, South Africa. This would be a wonderful opportunity for us to showcase our US based TB Voices Project and share about our current Nakuru, Kenya photovoice project. However, we are realistic that to send the necessary TB Photovoice staff and Kenyan partners, the cost is simply beyond our reach. Finding funding to attend such conferences is very challenging. We believe we have a lot to share with others working with those impacted by TB around the world and we love listening to our partners in TB.</p>
<p>Alice, Eva and I would love the opportunity to represent TB Photovoice and expand our reach! Join us as we do our best to shine in South Africa! &nbsp;We need to raise $8,000 by the end of September to make this opportunity a reality. But time is really, really, really short! If you have connections or organizations that could help us in this effort, please let us know!</p>
<p>Thank you all for your tremendous support!</p>
<p>In partnership,</p>
<p>Teresa Rugg</p><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://issuu.com/tbphotovoice/docs/tb_photovoice">Share TB Photovoice with your friends!</a></li></ul></p></div>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 03:52:32 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/6600/proj6600d.html#progressReportLinkTeresa Rugg2015-08-14T03:52:32Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/6600/proj6600d.html#progressReportLinkFeed hungry children in Kenya: "One On One Help for the Poorest"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/CG8C0RhNh_g/proj2777d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95829/peter-with-2-of-his-children-photo-from-progress-report/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/2777/Peter_with_2_of_his_children_Small.jpg' alt='Peter with 2 of his children'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Peter with 2 of his children</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Peter Kaindi is a single parent of 8 children. He tries to support his family by doing day labor odd jobs. He earns about $1.50 per day. His wife died from cancer. All nine family members live in the 2 rooms of a crude mud brick house with dirt floor and no latrine. Five of the children are school-age but three of them have dropped out because their father has not been able to afford the fees and uniforms. A generous GHP donor has offered to pay for a monthly food ration to help keep this family from going hungry and is also covering the school expenses so that the children can attend school. The same donor has decided to cover the monthly food ration for another family, a grandmother caring for her two orphaned grandchildren. These two families now bring the total to 24 families enrolled in the Global Health Partnerships (GHP) program of feeding the poorest.</p>
<p>In the three months (May through July 2015) since the last report the GHP outreach clinics provided screening and medical care, including immunizations and assessment for malnutrition for 225 children. Four children were treated for moderate or severe malnutrition.</p>
<p>The &ldquo;Feed Hungry Children in Kenya&rdquo; project provides relief from hunger and child malnutrition very effectively and efficiently. <strong>100% of the donations that are received by GHP go directly into program services</strong><strong>! </strong>(A GHP Board member is covering all GHP administrative expenses).</p>
<p>Any comments or suggestions that you might have about our program would be greatly appreciated. What do you consider most interesting? What changes would you like to see?</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95830/children-in-front-of-their-home-photo-from-progress-rep/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/2777/Children_in_front_of_their_hut._Small.jpg' alt='Children in front of their home'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Children in front of their home</i></div></div></div>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:08:18 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/2800/proj2777d.html#progressReportLinkDr. Angelo Tomedi2015-08-14T01:08:18Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/2800/proj2777d.html#progressReportLinkHelp 200 vulnerable Rwandan kids through education: "Food Sharing from Vulnerable Families"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/vsMhx2KqIbo/proj20722d.html
<div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><strong>Registration of new vulnerable children 2016 </strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong> </strong><strong>Background of Peace and Hope Initiative </strong></li>
</ol>
<p>The Genocide of&nbsp;1994 was planned and executed with such atrocity that within 100 days it took the lives of more than million people of Rwanda.&nbsp; The survivors of the massacres were mainly orphans, many of whom found themselves as children suddenly heads of the household; widows, grandmothers living along without children or family, women infected with AIDS as the result of victimization by rape, and those left handicapped either physically or mentally. These massacres have left a population traumatized, destitute, homeless and penniless, without the means to survive on their own.&nbsp;</p>
<p>After the Genocide, an estimated 8000 orphans were left as heads of their households, responsible before their time for the care of their sisters and brothers as well as for other family members. These children found themselves alone, traumatized, without care or support from their parents or any parent-like figure, and without the financial resources to ensure that they would be taken care of.&nbsp; They suffered tremendously to survive and to keep their families together, assuming responsibilities far beyond what any child should ever have to assume. Their own childhoods were sacrificed, and their futures were extremely uncertain.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In 2002, 8 years after the Genocide, the first houses in the village de Kinyinya were constructed by IBUKA to accommodate the families who were living in the village in tents at the time. In 2005, 90 other houses were build and the orphans who were head of households, the widows, the grandmothers, and those afflicted with AIDS and physical or mental handicaps as the result of the genocide were placed here. In June 2006, 11 duplexes were finally completed and put at the disposal of people who had no homes and whom were living in very vulnerable circumstances. In total, the village of Kinyinya is composed of 128 houses inhabited by the total of 525 people.</p>
<p>The inhabitants of the village were chosen from among the most deprived and vulnerable people of each sector of the city of Kigali, approximately 2 families per sector. Finally, some of these people had a safe, secure place to call home. Unfortunately, whereas in Kigali there might be the means to do and odd-job for money, to beg, to be given charity or some food, on the outskirts in Kinyinya these people now found themselves isolated. There was no livelihood for the people who were relocated here, no means to provide food, education, medicine, or employment. Several children died of malnutrition and disease in 2006 after the first year after relocation.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The state helped with schooling only until the end of high school. Food was only provided on a sporadic basis, by the PACFA and the Banks of Rwanda. This precarious situation could not continue.&nbsp; In response to this life-threatening situation, the orphans in charge of their respective households formed an organization &nbsp;in 2012 known as &ldquo;Peace and Hope initiative &rdquo; The goals of this organization &nbsp;were to develop a plan to garner resources so to enable these orphans to support themselves psychologically, address the health needs of the orphans, aid in education, teach about health, and work on developing sustainability projects so that they could feed themselves and provi<span>de liveli</span>hood for themselves and their families.</p>
<p>In response to the continuation of desperate circumstances facing this group of orphans as well as the community of Kinyina at large, the idea was conceived of to begin This Initiative in order to develop some projects in the community at large that would be revenue-generating, self-sufficient and sustainable in the long term.</p>
<p>These families formed a group to try to help to resolve some of the life-threatening economic issues that were facing them.</p>
<ul>
<li>60 child-headed households.</li>
<li>20 families where the household head is infected with AIDS.</li>
<li>15 families of grandmothers living along without family.</li>
<li>15 families with members who are physically or mentally handicapped.</li>
<li>10 families with members who are psychologically severely traumatized as a result of the events experienced during the genocide</li>
<li>8 families who are normal and able to take care of themselves.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In total, there are 128 families with no means of support.</p>
<p>All of the members in the village of Kinyinya were placed here as the result of the donations from benefactors with participation from the government of Rwanda.</p><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.peaceandhopeinitiative.org">www.peaceandhopeinitiative.org</a></li></ul></p><br/><b>Attachments:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pfil/20722/Background_Peace_and_Hope_Initiative.docx">Peace and Hope Initiative (DOCX)</a></li></ul></div>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:32:44 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/20800/proj20722d.html#progressReportLinkAlbert MUSABYIMANA2015-08-13T15:32:44Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/20800/proj20722d.html#progressReportLinkLegal Aid & Support for 450 Women in Sierra Leone: "50 Women & Children provided with Welfare Support"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/S7_n0qYXfXo/proj14101d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95859/lucee-from-the-back-to-protect-her-identity-photo-from/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/14101/Lucee_cropped_Small.jpg' alt='Lucee (from the back to protect her identity)'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Lucee (from the back to protect her identity)</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><em>&ldquo;I am what I am through AdvocAid. I can read&hellip;and design beads, which I can sell to earn a living for myself&rdquo;.</em></p>
<p>On behalf of all of the women we have supported over the past few months, we&rsquo;d like to say a huge thank you for your ongoing support of AdvocAid&rsquo;s work. A core component of what AdvocAid does in Sierra Leone, is to provide welfare items to women in Correctional Centres. The conditions in which they live are often deplorable, and as part of our remit to ensure human rights are upheld, we believe these women should have the bare necessities to be able to live.</p>
<p>A standard package that is provided to women includes: one cotton lappa (large piece of material wrapped around like a skirt), slippers, bathing/laundry soap, large toothpaste, toothbrush, Vaseline, knickers, sanitary pads, gari (a popular flour made from cassava tubers) and sugar.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Since our last report, we have given these packs to seven women in Port Loko, three women in Kono and 26 women in Kenema. We have also provided 13 women in Makeni with milk, sugar and agidie porrridge&nbsp;provisions.</p>
<p>As well as supporting women in correctional centres, we ensure their children have basic provisions as well. Since our last report, we have given one welfare package to a mother with a baby. The baby pack consists of: Baby clothes, a dozen nappies, baby oil, baby Vaseline, baby shampoo a feeding bottle and baby powder. These packages are put together and distributed by our Social Worker.</p>
<p>One lady who has recently benefitted from an AdvocAid welfare package is Lucee (<em>name changed to protect identity</em>). Lucee is 19 years old and was recently released from Freetown&rsquo;s Female Correctional Centre.</p>
<p>One of AdvocAid&rsquo;s paralegals first met Lucee in 2013, where she was being detained under the accusation of murdering her boyfriend. She stayed in prison awaiting trial for two years, where she had no representation, visitors or support.</p>
<p>In Sierra Leone, the provisions in prison are almost non-existent, so detainees depend on visits from their friends and family to have any clothes, washing and sanitary items as well as&nbsp;medical supplies. With no visitors, Lucee didn't have any of these.</p>
<p>AdvocAid has supported Lucee in a number of ways, including providing her with basic welfare items including those listed above. Lucee also attended literacy and numeracy classes run by AdvocAid and our partner EducAid - to support Lucee&rsquo;s learning, we provided her with a pen, pencil, ruler, book and reading books. AdvocAid also provided Lucee with a Lawyer who dealt with her case from the beginning to end; she was discharged on 28 July.</p>
<p><strong>Lucee had never been to school; she was illiterate, as are over 80% of women in Sierra Leone. With AdvocAid&rsquo;s support, she attended literacy and numeracy classes and gained bead making skills.</strong></p>
<p>When Lucee was released, the first thing she did was walk proudly into the AdvocAid office with her Literacy certificate. Lucee is now optimistic about her future, and is looking to start working as a petty trader: <em>&ldquo;I am what I am through AdvocAid. I can read&hellip;and design beads, which I can sell to earn a living for myself&rdquo;.</em></p>
<p>It is only with the support of people like you, that we can ensure women&rsquo;s time in Correctional Centres is rehabilitative. We work to ensure their human and legal rights are upheld behind bars, and that they&rsquo;re provided with an education and skills to make them stronger, and equal members of society upon release.</p>
<p>If you&rsquo;d like to continue supporting this project, please consider making a donation today, and we can ensure more women like Lucee have a brighter future ahead of them. Thank you.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95860/women-receiving-welfare-packages-photo-from-progress-re/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/14101/IMG20150413WA0008_Small.jpg' alt='Women receiving welfare packages'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Women receiving welfare packages</i></div></div><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.advocaidsl.com">Find out more about AdvocAid</a></li><li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/advocaidsierraleone">Follow our daily activities on Facebook</a></li></ul></p></div>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:30:52 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/14200/proj14101d.html#progressReportLinkJoanna Howarth2015-08-13T12:30:52Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/14200/proj14101d.html#progressReportLinkGive a girl a bike: help her to go to school: "Give a girl a bike: help her to go to school"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/ecjD976QSxw/proj1963d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95872/give-a-girl-a-bike-help-her-to-go-to-school-photo-from/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/1963/DSC_6424_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>&ldquo;I was excited for the day that I would get to ride my bicycle to school, and it finally arrived. I woke up early and got ready to go to school. Before school I arrived at the ground, and I saw many other girls like myself there. After some time, the chairperson of Mann Deshi, Madam Chetna Sinha, arrived. The bicycles were given to us by Madam Chetna Sinha. I was very happy. I rode home on the bicycle to show my mother, and she was very excited. My mother told the entire village about the bicycle. I saved a lot of my time, and used it to study more and help my mother at home. I&rsquo;m very thankful that the Mann Deshi gives bicycles to girls that are very poor and in need. I know that the other girls were also able to save a lot of time from their commute, and decrease the pain in their legs from walking such long distances every day.&rdquo; Says Sonam.</p>
<p>On the 30<sup>th</sup> June 2015, the Mann Deshi Foundation launched a &ldquo;Freedom Ride Program&rdquo; bicycle rally and giveaway program in partnership with Atma Cycle. Mann Deshi Foundation has implemented this program as a solution for those young girls in rural Indian communities who otherwise could not afford transportation to school on they reach adolescence, in order to continue their education.</p>
<p>The bicycle giveaway and rally was in partnership with Atma Cycle, a not-for-profit based in Australia that works to deliver bicycles to girls in India so that they may continue their education. During this rally, Mann Deshi donated 100 bicycles to schoolgirls, which will prove greatly beneficial to both their lives and that of their families.</p>
<p>Mann Deshi is thankful to Global Giving as this all possible because of Global Giving Supporters.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95873/mann-deshi-gave-100-bicycles-to-school-girls-photo-from/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/1963/IMG_6717_Small.JPG' alt='Mann Deshi gave 100 bicycles to school girls'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Mann Deshi gave 100 bicycles to school girls</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95874/give-a-girl-a-bike-help-her-to-go-to-school-photo-from/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/1963/DSC_6425_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div></div>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:20:42 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/2000/proj1963d.html#progressReportLinkVanita Shinde2015-08-13T08:20:42Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/2000/proj1963d.html#progressReportLinkProvide Relief for Syrian Refugees: "What do refugees need after leaving everything?"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/1iZVUgZEsuk/proj12897d.html
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<div class="flex-caption-inner" style="font-family: inherit;">Syrian refugees in Jordan have few options to support themselves, making it difficult to purchase even the most basic necessities, like food. Mercy Corps distributes essential supplies to help vulnerable families meet their basic needs. All photos: Sumaya Agha for Mercy Corp</div>
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<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">Syrian refugees in Jordan have few options to support themselves, making it difficult to purchase even the most basic necessities, like food. Mercy Corps distributes essential supplies to help vulnerable families meet their basic needs. All photos: Sumay Agha for Mercy Corps</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">Imagine fleeing your home with little more than the clothes on your back and what few items you can carry. You are running for your life &mdash; forced to leave your house, job, school, car, belongings and memories behind.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">This is the reality for 4 million Syrians who have fled to neighboring countries for safety from the war that has ravaged their nation for more than four year</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Once they cross the border &mdash; empty-handed and in a foreign land &mdash; how do they make due?</strong></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">Below, learn about some of the essential items Mercy Corps provides to Syrian refugees living in host communities and camps in Jordan. The supplies help the most vulnerable refugee families survive and cope after losing so much.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/FOOD_0.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">It is illegal for Syrians to work in Jordan. Without livelihood opportunities, refugees struggle to purchase even the most basic necessities. We distribute&nbsp;<strong style="font-family: inherit;">food items</strong>&nbsp;like pasta, cooking oil and milk, to help them feed their families.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/COOKINGUTENSILS.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Cooking utensils and dishes</strong>&nbsp;help refugees prepare safe, nutritious meals. The tools also give Syrian families the opportunity to keep an important part of their culture alive &mdash; cooking and socializing around food.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/HYGIENESUPPLIES.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Hygiene items</strong>&nbsp;like soap, toothpaste and razors are essential to helping refugees, who often live in crowded or makeshift shelters, stay clean and healthy.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/BABYCLOTHESweb.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">Life doesn&rsquo;t stop when someone becomes a refugee &mdash; people still have happy milestones like getting married or having a baby. We make sure parents have&nbsp;<strong style="font-family: inherit;">newborn supplies</strong>&nbsp;&mdash; bottles, blankets, diapers, formula &mdash; to care for the new addition to their family.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/CLOTHING.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">Children don&rsquo;t stop growing, either. There is a constant need for&nbsp;<strong style="font-family: inherit;">clothing</strong>&nbsp;in refugee communities, especially for quickly growing youngsters.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/SCHOOLSUPPLIES.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">Educational resources are limited for young Syrians in Jordan, and getting children into school can be challenging. When kids do get registered,&nbsp;<strong style="font-family: inherit;">school supplies</strong>&nbsp;like pencils, rulers, notebooks and backpacks are crucial to their ability to learn and succeed.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/STUFFEDANIMALS.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Stuffed animals</strong>&nbsp;are a small joy for children who have been uprooted from their homes, schools and friends &mdash; and forced to leave their toys behind.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/books.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">Whether they're living in host communities or refugee camps, it's essential that refugee children have opportunities to grow, learn and continue their development. We provide<strong style="font-family: inherit;">books</strong>&nbsp;for kids to read in the Child Friendly Spaces we maintain in Zaatari camp.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><img class="adaptive-image" style="font-family: inherit;" src="http://d2zyf8ayvg1369.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/SOCCERSHOES.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">We also provide&nbsp;<strong style="font-family: inherit;">soccer shoes</strong>&nbsp;to children who play on the sports fields in Zaatari. Safe places to play, like the Child Friendly Spaces and the camp sports fields, help refugee children heal from trauma and feel a sense of normalcy.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;"><em style="font-family: inherit;">This work is made possible thanks to support from UNICEF, UK Aid, and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, as well as generous donors like you.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeueLight, HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fcfcfc;">How you can Help:</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; background-color: #fcfcfc;">Donate today. </strong>Every single contribution helps us provide even more support to Syrian families in desperate need of help.</p>
<p><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Tell your friends.</strong>&nbsp;Share this story and spread the word about the millions of people who need us.</p>
<p><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Stay informed.</strong>&nbsp;Read more stories about our work and those we are helping on Mercy Corps' Syria Crisis Response page. See link below.</p><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.mercycorps.org/tags/syria-crisis">Syria Crisis Response Page</a></li></ul></p></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:45:53 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/12900/proj12897d.html#progressReportLinkSumaya Agha2015-08-12T23:45:53Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/12900/proj12897d.html#progressReportLinkHealing for Sexual Violence Survivors in Colombia: "Conversations with Survivors of Sexual Violence"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/CuQPhadDArw/proj18992d.html
<div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>It&rsquo;s possible to offer a new life to young girl survivors of sexual violence. That&rsquo;s exactly what MADRE and our partners at Taller de Vida do. Together, we provide trauma counseling, art therapy and more to young women and girls who have seen the worst of war. And we strengthen and empower young women to advocate for their rights.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, MADRE traveled to Colombia to visit with some of the young girls we work with. We spoke to a group of young girl survivors about their healing journey through Taller de Vida programs and about where they see themselves in the future. We wanted to share some of their reflections with you now.</p>
<p><em>&ldquo;Taller de Vida is very important to me. We not only learn how to be a person, we learn what people need. It&rsquo;s more than a life project. It&rsquo;s about sharing and personal growth. To succeed at things, you don&rsquo;t just need to think, you need to act.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;Before [Taller de Vida], I didn&rsquo;t know much. Why I existed? How to move forward? But now, I leave the past behind and move forward. I&rsquo;ve learned many great things.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;When I arrived, I got knowledge, advice, learned to accept myself and my qualities. Little by little, I&rsquo;m making my dreams a reality. I want to learn more and keep moving forward.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know what to do in life. I felt alone. It&rsquo;s cool for me to come here. I learn to move forward and fight for my dreams.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;Taller de Vida teaches us to share, create a life project, and value people. It&rsquo;s a blessing because it teaches us how to be thankful.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;Before I got here, I was a girl who didn&rsquo;t know who I was. No one valued me. But then I can here and learned many things. I learned to value myself. Now I know who I am.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;Before arriving, I was a very sad girl. I was alone and didn&rsquo;t like to do things with people. What I&rsquo;ve learned is to love myself. I don&rsquo;t want to dislike who I am. I learned to support myself and respect others. I want all the girls here to feel love and know they can do a lot in their life. I want to continue studying. I&rsquo;ve learned that yes, we can succeed.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p>Thank you for supporting this important project! With your help, these young girls are benefiting from a community of support. What&rsquo;s more, through counseling and art therapy, they are beginning to heal from the traumas they&rsquo;ve endured. With your support, they are reimagining their life from one of violence to one of peace. Thank you for making this possible!</p></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:28:06 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/19000/proj18992d.html#progressReportLinkMADRE2015-08-12T21:28:06Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/19000/proj18992d.html#progressReportLinkMicro-finance Project in Egypt-Empower 200 women: "A Woman Who's Not Waiting for Handouts - And Proud of It"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/7BhLGJkYlVU/proj9108d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95884/susan-a-proud-entrepreneur-and-her-daughter-photo-from/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9108/150812_Bedaya_Mother_GG_FB_Small.png' alt='Susan - a proud entrepreneur - and her daughter.'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Susan - a proud entrepreneur - and her daughter.</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><strong>A giant drawing of St. George looms over visitors to Susan's home, but she's not waiting for heroes on horseback to save her family. She's taking her fate into her own hands &mdash; she's had to, since the artist, her husband, passed away two years ago.<br /></strong><br />When I first met Susan this August, she was still grieving for her husband. But, as she says, the time came when she had to decide how to support her 8-year-old daughter. <br /><br />It wasn't going to be easy, there in her marginalized neighborhood on the outskirts of Minya in Upper Egypt. From an already hardscrabble existence, her husband's death dropped her down even farther on the economic ladder. For Susan's family, some necessities quickly became luxuries. <br /><br />Added to the economic blow of widowhood came the restrictions imposed on her by Egypt's male-dominated society. Expectations are that widows will stick to the home and rely on charity to survive.<br /><br />Certainly, the last thing anyone in Egypt expects a widow to do is to go into business. Better, the thinking goes, that they live on handouts. Yet, says Susan, "I knew I had to do something productive." <br /><br />It was an uphill battle to scrape together what remained of her savings, borrow bits and pieces here and there from family and friends, and turn a room of her house into a dry goods store. But Susan did it. <br /><br />Today, people from the neighborhood pop in for their bags of detergent and other household needs. Their small purchases earn a thin margin of profit that helps put bread on the table for Susan's daughter. <br /><br />Talking to Susan, I came to understand the pride she takes in this achievement, and the depth of her drive to succeed despite huge, huge obstacles.<br /><br />It's for people like Susan that B'edaya, Coptic Orphans' microfinance project, exists. I'm proud that we've begun the process of selecting a new group of 50 mothers to receive B'edaya loans of up to 7,000 Egyptian pounds (around US$1,000).<br /><br />For those who have already started a business, the money may foot the bill for improvements that offer a competitive advantage in the market. For others, the loan may be the first step towards financial self-sufficiency, and fund the foundation of the enterprise they're envisioning. <br /><br />B'edaya mothers &mdash; all of them the widowed mothers of orphans in our program &mdash; have successfully run everything from feed stores to photography studios to home furnishings outlets. <br /><br />This next round of B'edaya builds on the achievements of 30 mothers in Sohag, Minya, Alexandria, Monofiyya, and Cairo who received the most recent round of loans in 2014. So thanks to generous support from all over the world, we're getting closer to our goal of empowering 200 women through microfinance!<br /><br />The next round will begin in March 2016, and the widows selected to participate will receive ongoing coaching and skills-building to ensure that they can use their loans to best effect. <br /><br />We hope that all of the Susans of Egypt will apply for B'edaya's next round, and we're encouraging them to do so. Because as she can tell you, there's a difference between waiting for a handout and being your own boss. <br /><br /><strong>The difference is pride.</strong></p></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:44:56 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/9200/proj9108d.html#progressReportLinkNermien Riad2015-08-12T16:44:56Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/9200/proj9108d.html#progressReportLinkMah di's Orphanage needs your help: "Mah Di's Orphanage is already transforming"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/j03cUBs7VQg/proj17852d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95885/children-grinding-ground-nut-photo-from-progress-report/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/17852/beans_Small.jpg' alt='children grinding ground nut'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>children grinding ground nut</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Dear Friends of Mah Di's Orphanage,</p>
<p>Since our last report all of this has been happening:</p>
<p>Two functioning fishponds have been paid for and started construction</p>
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<p>Mosquito nets have been renewed in all rooms</p>
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<p>A medical kit with medicine has been bought</p>
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<p>They continue construction of a new room for better cooking and eating&nbsp;</p>
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<p>A new clean water pump has been finished</p>
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<p>Several food supplies (beans, vegetables) and two beds have been bought</p>
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<p>Pigs have been fattened and sold to save money for school fees</p>
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<p>Several chicken have been bought, raised and sold</p>
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<p>All children got positive grades and are continuing their studies</p>
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<p>This has been done thanks to your support and the support of more wonderful people like you, and if we have to thank anyone it would be Mah Diana and the children, who continue to beat all odds and to build a great home together. It is their spirit and hard work that keeps this project going, we could not find more worthy beneficiaries for our(yours and ours) efforts.</p>
<p>But we want to highlight something amazing that happened literally in the other side of the world. 4 teenagers from Kamehameha School (Makuane, Hawaii) started a school project to raise funds for a social cause, and they picked the orphanage. Particularly for the fishpond microproject because as hawaians they felt a special connection with ponds, as they explained to us. They sold donuts, they worked transcribing, they went around asking for contributions and they did an amazing job, raising more than 900$. They explained all of this to globalgiving by letter, and they scanned the letter and send it to us. We printed it and read it in front of the children, it was inspiring for those who understood and Mah Diana took time to bring it down to real-life examples, &ldquo;See what these children are doing, and they are only 17!&rdquo; . Thanks to them the construction of the fishpond is going forward and we've been constructing for more than one month, although the severe rains of rainy season delay the porcess a bit. We would love to contact them to thank them properly but so far we have not been succesful, maybe some of our benefactors can have better luck trying?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Also worth of mention is what happened with the chicken, Mah Diana bought only a few of them, but, with accute expertise of the market she is working on, she made great profit when she sold them, continued the venture buying more small chicks and she even kept some of the big ones in a special space, that space is for the children to learn how to take care and raise chicken themselves, another small detail that shows the kind of philosophy that impregnates Mah Di's Orphanage.</p>
<p>But we are still a long way to go, and we will continue asking for your support to raise the living standards of the orphanage, make it self-reliant economically and continue to work towards not only securing the subsistence of the children, but providing a bright future for the men and women they will become.</p>
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<p>We are at your disposal and you can check on us through facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/reachoutcameroon">www.facebook.com/reachoutcameroon</a> ) or our web( <a href="http://www.reachoutcameroon.org">www.reachoutcameroon.org</a>&nbsp;)</p>
<p><br />Some pictures were taken by a new volunteer from Estonia, Robert Nut, who is a professional photographer and had wonderful equipment, has made this short video about his visit to the orphanage.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykNjuJEM2kQ&amp;feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykNjuJEM2kQ&amp;feature=youtu.be</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95886/monica-photo-from-progress-report-mah-dis-orphanage-is/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/17852/Monica_Small.jpg' alt='Monica'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Monica</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95887/new-water-pump-photo-from-progress-report-mah-dis-orpha/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/17852/water_pump_Small.jpg' alt='New Water Pump'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>New Water Pump</i></div></div></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:04:43 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/17900/proj17852d.html#progressReportLinkMarc Serna2015-08-12T16:04:43Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/17900/proj17852d.html#progressReportLinkSupport Sustainability for Nicaraguan Farmers: "Regional Project Family Udpate"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/mZjYs7s2QHU/proj877d.html
<div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>This year in Nicaragua we have launched our Regional Project, an expansion of our 30-year mission to reach more Central American families with the resources they need to work their way out of chronic poverty. In preparation for this launch, we have performed extensive land assessments to identify properties in Nicaragua that are capable of supporting agriculture, housing, water, and other critical human needs. When we found La Bendicon, we knew that we had found the right place for the next families to live. We have broken ground, and have begun to build houses and design a water system to provide potable water for the community. In the months ahead, families will move into their homes, plant crops, and begin a journey to land ownership and economic growth.</p>
<p>Also part of our expansion is the work we have started with families in the areas surrounding the communities where we work. These families live in small, separate communities, often squatting on land, some with just a little access to land that they may own. But they do not have access to agricultural training that can help them improve their income. We work with these families and area agencies to ensure they have resources to improve agricultural production, health, access to clean water and sanitation, among other things.</p>
<p>The family of Jose and Isaida is one of the families who started working with Agros as part of the extended regional project. After working with Agros, they decided to apply for a place in the new La Bendicion community, and will soon move onto that property. We're excited to welcome them to their new home!</p>
<p><strong>Meet Jose and Isaida:</strong></p>
<p>It&rsquo;s just after noon when we meet Jose &nbsp;and his wife, Isaida. They sit outside their wooden small shelter no more than 100 square feet that serves as a home for them and their four children between the ages of 2 and 13. They rest on a makeshift bench and recline against a piece of scavenged and slightly rusty metal roofing.</p>
<p>Their eldest daughter, Cindy, 13, is at school. The other children: Marcus, 10; Maria, 8 and Abriana, nearly 2, play in and around the home.</p>
<p>Although it is nearly lunchtime, no smoke filters out from the walls as it does in nearby homes. The coals in this kitchen are cold, evidence that they probably haven&rsquo;t been lit today. The only food on their shelf is a few bananas, a small bottle with a couple tablespoons of oil and a bit of salt.</p>
<p>Isaida explains that it costs about 300 cordobas (roughly $11) to feed her family of six with basic food (rice, beans, tortillas) a day. Right now, they don&rsquo;t have that money. When Jose Alejandro is able to find work as a day laborer he earns about 100 Cordobas (about $3.75) a day. But, he doesn&rsquo;t find work every day. Isaida also works, selling snacks outside the school nearby. Last year she got paid 50 Cordobas (less than $2) a day. But, as the school year is just getting started, she is coming off a long season of not working and has yet to receive her first payment for this year&rsquo;s efforts.</p>
<p>Despite their difficult circumstances and their hunger, they don&rsquo;t complain. &ldquo;As poor people, we are used to &lsquo;making it work&rsquo;,&rdquo; explains Jose Alejandro, noting they are used to skipping meals or small portions when there is nothing else.&nbsp; &ldquo;Right now, we are eating soup because we don&rsquo;t have enough money for anything else,&rdquo; he adds.</p>
<p>Neither Jose and Isaida have ever experienced abundance. They have rarely even had enough. Poverty runs in the family. &ldquo;Everyone (my father, grandfather) have been day laborers, working on farms,&rdquo; explains Jose.</p>
<p>Although Josewas able to get a basic education, Isaida never had the chance to set foot in a classroom. &ldquo;I was very young when I started to work in the coffee fields,&rdquo; she says, noting that she was just 13. &ldquo;This has been what I have done my whole life.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Neither their past nor their present circumstances keep them from dreaming that one day things will be better: better for them and better, especially, for their children. &ldquo;We always think [about the future],&rdquo; says Jose Alejandro. &ldquo;But, as someone in poverty you can&rsquo;t do anything [to change your situation],&rdquo; he explains.</p>
<p>Their situation and circumstances are very real. Today, their eldest daughter, Cindy, 13, is the same age they were when they started working. But, they want something different for her. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want my daughter to work like I worked,&rdquo; says Isaida. &ldquo;I want her to be able to study. I don&rsquo;t want her to suffer like I suffered when I was young. I want her to be able to study, to get ahead in life,&rdquo; she adds, noting that Cindy dreams of becoming and engineer.</p>
<p>Although they have lived in poverty their entire lives, Jose Alejandro and Isaida are optimistic about the future. They hope to leave their small home, where the wind and rain come in through the holes in the walls and the roof behind and be able to move to the new village that Agros is creating. There, in addition to access to land, they aspire to have better living conditions. &ldquo;I imagine the house [we will have in the future] in my head,&rdquo; says Isaida. &ldquo;In my house, I&rsquo;m going to have water and electricity,&rdquo; she says with a smile.</p>
<p>They know that the dream of buying their own land one day is like chasing the stars without the support of an organization like Agros. But, they also know that land ownership is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty that has trapped both of their families for so many generations. &ldquo;Maybe, with help from Agros and from God, we will be able to get ahead and at least provide food for our family,&rdquo; says Jose Alejandro, hopeful.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p><strong>Learn more about Agros International: www.agros.org</strong></p>
<p><strong>Visit us on Facebook:&nbsp;https://www.facebook.com/AgrosIntl</strong></p></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:00:44 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/900/proj877d.html#progressReportLinkChrista Countryman2015-08-12T15:00:44Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/900/proj877d.html#progressReportLinkArt programs for 3,500 in-need New York children: "Arts For All update!"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/X99ATqqokSo/proj4508d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95888/children-in-the-artistic-residency-program-photo-from-p/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/4508/ArtsForAll_ArtisticResidencyProgram_PS69_RobinColwell_Small.jpg' alt='Children in the Artistic Residency Program'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Children in the Artistic Residency Program</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>On behalf of everyone at Arts For All, I hope you&rsquo;re having a great summer! We&rsquo;re gearing up for a busy fall. In September, Literacy Through the Arts will start back up again in grades K-2 at Hamilton Heights Elementary in Harlem and PS15 in the East Village. Literacy Through the Arts (LTA) builds students&rsquo; reading, writing and verbal expression skills through a multi-arts curriculum in theater, literature, music, visual arts and dance. Through art, K-2 students develop critical and creative thinking and a vocabulary to express ideas, stories and emotions. Literacy Through the Arts workshops were developed by teaching artists Lena Moy-Borgen and Shawn Shafner under the oversight of Arts For All Executive Director, Anna Roberts Ostroff,&nbsp;and prior PS15 Principal Thomas Staebell.</p>
<p>In addition to LTA, our Artistic Residency Program will be back up and running at several of our partnering schools including PS163 in the Bronx, PS69 on Staten Island and Weeksville Elementary in Brooklyn. Through the Artistic Residency Program, teaching artists teach music, theater, dance, visual art, poetry and film workshops to under-served children aged 4-19.</p>
<p>We&rsquo;re excited to expand our Haiku Program to a new school this fall. We will be offering an 8-week Haiku and Music Program at PS76 in Queens. We co-created the Haiku Programs with our partner, Amy Losak, in 2013 to honor the legacy of Amy&rsquo;s late mother, the published haiku poet, Sydell Rosenberg. In the Haiku and Visual Arts Program and the Haiku and Music Program, 2<sup>nd</sup> graders explore Sydell Rosenberg&rsquo;s haiku through the lens of either visual art or music. This program builds students&rsquo; literacy skills as well as the Arts For All Core Values: creativity, resilience, teamwork, self-expression, and self-esteem.</p>
<p>This November, we will be brining approximately 50 students from New Alternatives for Children and PS163 on a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for our annual Day at the Met field trip. We are also planning a special field trip for students from PS163 to attend artist, Erick Sanchez&rsquo;s studio on the Lower East Side. Along with a team of volunteers from a girl&rsquo;s high school in Australia, Erick will lead the PS163 students in a painting workshop at his professional art studio. Students will each work with a high school student mentor, create their own painting and the field trip will culminate with lunch before the students head back to PS163 in the afternoon.</p>
<p>We are preparing for our annual Audience Project Tour. This year, we are thrilled to present &ldquo;Voice Power!,&rdquo; written and performed by poet/musician and AFA teaching artist, Darian Dauchan. We will bring this exciting production, free of charge, to approximately 2,500 under-served NYC children this fall, many of whom have never seen professional theater. Poet/musician Darian Dauchan guides young audiences on a vocal odyssey through rhymes, beat-boxing, &amp; acapella melodies in search of one of civilization&rsquo;s most valued treasures &ndash; the power of the voice!</p>
<p>Without your support, none of these engaging programs would be possible. Thank you for your continued belief in Arts For All&rsquo;s mission.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95889/dance-residency-at-ps163-with-ta-kim-schafer-photo-from/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/4508/dance_1_Small.jpg' alt='Dance Residency at PS163 with TA, Kim Schafer'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Dance Residency at PS163 with TA, Kim Schafer</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95890/student-artwork-from-artistic-residency-program-photo-f/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/4508/Visual_art_1_Small.jpg' alt='Student artwork from Artistic Residency Program'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Student artwork from Artistic Residency Program</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95891/ta-darian-dauchan-in-the-haiku-and-music-program-photo/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/4508/Darien_Small.jpg' alt='TA Darian Dauchan in the Haiku &amp; Music Program'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>TA Darian Dauchan in the Haiku &amp; Music Program</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95892/students-in-the-literacy-through-the-arts-program-photo/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/4508/PS_15_copy_Small.jpg' alt='Students in the Literacy Through the Arts program'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Students in the Literacy Through the Arts program</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95893/students-in-the-artistic-residency-program-photo-from-p/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/4508/HH_Small.jpg' alt='Students in the Artistic Residency Program.'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Students in the Artistic Residency Program.</i></div></div></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:19:06 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/4600/proj4508d.html#progressReportLinkJessie Kilguss2015-08-12T14:19:06Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/4600/proj4508d.html#progressReportLinkBring 24 young ambassadors together for peace: "Expanding Unity, Celebrating Diversity - Indonesia"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/nsZbVF_CrSE/proj10014d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95894/bhinneka-camp-bhinneka-means-unity-in-english-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/10014/group_photo_2_Small.jpg' alt='Bhinneka Camp! (Bhinneka means unity in English)'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Bhinneka Camp! (Bhinneka means unity in English)</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><strong>Expanding unity, celebrating diversity</strong></p>
<p>Thank you for supporting our work, which aims to bring about better understanding and unity between diverse communities, cultures and religions around the world.</p>
<p>In this update I am delighted to tell you about an exciting project that our friends at Encompass Indonesia are planning. Encompass Indonesia is hoping to be at the forefront of a new era of cooperation between Southeast Asian nations.</p>
<p>This year, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) entered a new era of collaboration between its members &ndash; Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. This means a more fluid flow of products, services, workforce and investment.</p>
<p>However many worry that, in reality, this will highlight long term friction between some member countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia and Thailand and Cambodia. Encompass Indonesia wants to do something about this! They are planning a new project <strong>which will mirror the Encompass international Journey of Understanding</strong> of which many Indonesian young people have already taken part in, together with Palestinians, Israelis, Americans and British.</p>
<p>Each of the ASEAN member countries will be given the chance to send three participants aged 18-23 on to the nine day programme to be hosted in Indonesia. Objectives of the programme will be as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>To empower participants as leaders of inter-community cohesion</li>
<li>To allow participants to address the various stereotypes and prejudices and building respect between diverse communities</li>
<li>To build self-esteem and confidence</li>
<li>To provide an ideas forum</li>
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<p>Encompass&rsquo; roots are in the Bali bombing of 2002 and so Indonesia has been central to the organisation since its inception. Encompass Indonesia was established as an organisation in its own right in Indonesia in 2011, and is based in Malang (on Java), a town heavily populated with students.&nbsp;&nbsp; They have a very strong and active group of volunteers as well as an excellent staff team.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>The key figure at Encompass Indonesia has been Heroe Soeprapto who initially ran a youth pioneer organisation called YEPE which Encompass began working alongside. Heroe has ceded control to his daughter, Adhitya Putri &ndash; a 24 year old Indonesian film star &ndash; but remains the guiding hand whilst on twice-weekly kidney dialysis. The other key player is Bambang Sarasno who is heavily into music and arts and uses his skills to run programmes on behalf of Encompass Indonesia.</p>
<p>Putri said about the plan to roll out their work with ASEAN countries, &ldquo;We are very keen to get this project going and think that we can make an enormous difference.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Other Encompass Indonesia projects have included:</p>
<ul>
<li>A Children&rsquo;s Art competition where Encompass Indonesia alumni visited 75 schools in the Malang area to get children (ages 5 &ndash; 17) to take part in an art competition under the heading &lsquo;Harmony in Diversity&rsquo;. It was supported by the local Arts Council and hundreds turned up on a Saturday to take part.</li>
<li>Metamorphosa - A music and dance workshop/festival/competition bringing young people from across Indonesia, notably from some of the areas where there is conflict and/or discord with other parts of the country (Aceh, Papua). Musicians&rsquo; form Papua were amazed at being able to take part in something where they were accepted as normal, listened to and appreciated and not treated as sub-human and a joke, as is their usual status in Indonesia.</li>
<li>Their own local programme Bhinneka (meaning unity) Camp</li>
<li>Encompass goes to school &ndash; alumni going into schools to run workshops and talk about the Encompass message</li>
</ul>
<p>Encompass&nbsp;Indonesia are currently working hard to make the new ASEAN project a reality. They are building networks of contacts and sourcing sponsorship. If you feel that you can help at all, please do let us know. Support for this work is vital -&nbsp; both financial and in kind.</p>
<p>Thanks again for your support for our work.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95895/bhinneka-camp-workshop-photo-from-progress-report-expan/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/10014/workshop_3_Small.jpg' alt='Bhinneka Camp workshop'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Bhinneka Camp workshop</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95896/planning-for-a-workshop-on-tackling-conflict-photo-from/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/10014/worksheet_4_Small.jpg' alt='Planning for a workshop on tackling conflict'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Planning for a workshop on tackling conflict</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95897/bhinneka-camp-photo-from-progress-report-expanding-unit/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/10014/Bhinekka_Camp_Small.jpg' alt='Bhinneka Camp'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Bhinneka Camp</i></div></div></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:02:47 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/10100/proj10014d.html#progressReportLinkJason Bowles2015-08-12T14:02:47Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/10100/proj10014d.html#progressReportLinkBridge Educational Gaps for 100 Girls in Kenya.: "Bridge Educational Gaps for 100 Orphan Girls"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/bXVPUZGsDiM/proj15559d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95899/bridge-educational-gaps-for-100-girls-in-kenya-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/15559/P1000888_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Dear friends,</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>We are delighted to update you on the progress of our project, <strong>Bridge Educational Gaps for 100 Orphan Girls</strong>. As we told you in our last post, the region is still experiencing an educational crisis. Many teachers have left the region for fear of an attack by extremist groups. Luckily, Elwak Girls, the project location, have been spared of the worst exodus of teachers.&nbsp; The project activities have in away improved the morale of the teachers, and this was made possible by your kind donations. Thank you.</p>
<p>In terms of pupils progress, a lot have changed since our last report. End of second term exam analysis have been completed, and the findings are very encouraging. Most of the pupils have made good progress both in terms of their position in class and their mean score. School attendance has improved dramatically. According to the school administration and interviews with parents, the girls are very keen to attend school and their confidence during lessons has improved.&nbsp; The school has also introduced extra-curriculum activities such as an environmental club, debating and current affairs discussions after school and some sporting activities.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Through debating and current affairs activities, pupils are encouraged to develop their language and thinking skills which are crucial for their personal development.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The project has also attracted support from the local community.&nbsp; Recently a local environmental group called Nomadic Green Belt Movement provided support to the school's environment Club. Nearly forty new trees were planted, and the pupils have promised take care of the plants. Hopefully, in a year's time, the currently bare school compound will have adequate shade for the children.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Also, we organised a youth forum to discuss the current educational crisis and the general decline in literacy and numeracy levels in the Elwak Sub-County. Nearly sixty volunteers attended the forum and have promised to support a planned campaign on literacy improvement as part of our project next term. We are very happy with the level of support and enthusiasm shown by the youth, and we are confident they will support the initiative once it's launched.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The microcredit scheme component of the project is equally doing well. The five ladies involved have managed to save Ksh 7000 (&pound;45) and are due to receive &pound;320 loan from the project once they have received basic business management training.&nbsp; Thank you for your support once again for enabling us make a wider impact on our community.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>We are also happy to report that a team of volunteers at Dentsu Aegis Network have organised a charity bike ride called Route2Good&nbsp; from Amsterdam to Paris in October to raise funds for our project. Without your donations, this would not have been possible. Thank you. You can access their fundraising below and support them with whatever you can.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95900/bridge-educational-gaps-for-100-girls-in-kenya-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/15559/P1000887_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95901/bridge-educational-gaps-for-100-girls-in-kenya-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/15559/DSCN0216_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95902/bridge-educational-gaps-for-100-girls-in-kenya-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/15559/DSCN0344_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95903/bridge-educational-gaps-for-100-girls-in-kenya-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/15559/DSCN0354_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95904/bridge-educational-gaps-for-100-girls-in-kenya-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/15559/P1000878_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95905/bridge-educational-gaps-for-100-girls-in-kenya-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/15559/P1000880_Small.JPG' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:46:47 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/15600/proj15559d.html#progressReportLinkAbdirashid Ali2015-08-12T13:46:47Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/15600/proj15559d.html#progressReportLinkEmpower Women in Rural Cameroon - Palm Oil Project: "Progress report of Empowering the rural women in Cameroon"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/GDioZDw_91Y/proj6531d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95794/a-send-off-of-our-volunteer-sarah-photo-from-progress-r/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/6531/DSCN1605_modified_Small.jpg' alt='A send off of our volunteer Sarah'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>A send off of our volunteer Sarah</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Greetings&nbsp; from Cameroon women.&nbsp; Here again is an update from the field regarding the Help empower the rural cameroon women. During this quarter the Palm oil project moved on very well without any problem. We employed and experience very rewarding invovations which made the project to more beneficial to the women and to their families.</p>
<p>We decided to add&nbsp; Soap to run alongside the distribution of the Palm OIl.The women also have requested a&nbsp; Short term Poultry project for us to lobby for funds to buy and distribute at least 10 Chicks each to&nbsp; women so that they can grow and sell by Mid December 2015 to generate some income and then pay back the principal for recycling.</p>
<p>During the quarter Sarah our German volunteer who worked with these women for one year ended her placement.&nbsp; A send off party was given him by leaders of these groups.</p>
<p>Sarah is replaced by two other volunteers from Original Volunteers UK and they have just started visiting some grhe groups to be familier with the project.</p>
<p>The limitations&nbsp; to this project is the lack of adequate funds and most especially to coup up with the recent inovations.</p>
<p>We thank those who have supported this project very much and call on those who are still interestred&nbsp; in suporting women projects or women empowerment programmes to extend their charitable hands to us.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you for reading our report.&nbsp; Get to us if you need detail information regarding this project.</p></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:59:44 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/6600/proj6531d.html#progressReportLinkWirkom Fred2015-08-12T11:59:44Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/6600/proj6531d.html#progressReportLinkNepal disaster:relief to remote rural villages: "Temporary Learning Centre Reports"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/USjJITVoURc/proj20608d.html
<div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Having given immediate aid and relief to remote villages, we have now focussed on rebuilding and rehousing rural communities.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">The Esther Benjamins Trust were asked by the District Education Office in Hetauda for support to build temporary bamboo learning centres (TLCs), each costing &pound;1,100. We agreed to build nine TLCs as the first phase of this project. Some of theseTLC's are already up and running, which is greatly helping the children to become more settled again. With the monsoon arriving the TLC's provide shelter and ensure that the lessons continue as normal. &nbsp;</p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;"><span><span>Over the past ten years we have developed a programme of support for communities which aims to ensure that parents understand the importance of an education and that they choose school over entering the labour market or trafficking for their children. This programme becomes even more important at times of hardship, when the short term concern of earning money for survival may over-ride the long term benefits of an education in the minds of parents</span></span></p><br/><b>Attachments:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pfil/20608/TLC_Report.pdf">Temporary Learning Centre Report (PDF)</a><br><a href="http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pfil/20608/TLC_Report.pdf"><img src='http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pfil/20608/TLC_Report_Medium.jpg' alt='Temporary Learning Centre Report (PDF)'/></a></li></ul></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:39:07 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/20700/proj20608d.html#progressReportLinkCaroline Emlyn Jones2015-08-12T11:39:07Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/20700/proj20608d.html#progressReportLinkProtect Tigers in India: "Removing threats to Wildlife in India"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/FpPYd-dTv1s/proj11187d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95913/mongoose-hair-brushes-photo-from-progress-report-removi/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/11187/MongooseHair_Brushes_Kochi_Small.jpg' alt='Mongoose hair brushes'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Mongoose hair brushes</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><strong><span>Background:</span></strong><span> Wildlife trade is identified as one of the major threats to the survival of many species in India. Several species of wildlife are under constant threat due to illegal commercial exploitation. Wildlife trade control is carried out by various enforcement agencies across the country. </span></p>
<p><span>Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) tries to fill in certain gaps, by assisting these agencies through its Wildlife Trade Control Project.&nbsp; The project area, peninsular India is a historic source for animal products and trophies obtained from tigers, leopards elephants which are further traded in the international markets. The traditional tiger hunting communities such as <em>pardhies</em> and <em>bawarias</em> are also active in these areas.&nbsp; Poaching and trade of wildlife for bush-meat is also widespread across the region which affects not only the ecology of species like spotted deer, gaur and sambar but also the long-term survival of predators like tiger and leopard.&nbsp; Local hunters use hand-made guns, snares, etc., to poach wild animals and&nbsp; they sell valuable body parts to established gangs through existing networks of carriers and agents. </span></p>
<p><span>A number of interstate poaching gangs have been intercepted by various State Forest Departments with assistance from WTI's team. Since the start of the project in 2009, WTI has assisted State Forest Departments in confiscating tiger skins, leopard skins, ivory and arrest of suspects. Hundreds of wire snares have been removed during anti-snare walks which are conducted in association with frontline forest guards in Tiger Reserves. The project also acts as a platform to impart training to frontline staff in the Project area.&nbsp; WTI has also carried out anti snare work last year and removed number of electrocution and snare from those fringe and buffer areas. WTI team has also assisted in many cases to helping monitor wildlife crime and providing technical assistance. The trade control activities will be done in association with the local community and Forest Department.</span></p>
<p><strong><span>Activities conducted during last quarter:-</span></strong></p>
<ul>
<li><span>Between April and July 2015, our Trade Control Team working in the South India carried out anti snare walks in the fringe areas of the Bandipur and removed 87 snares from Gundre Range, N Begur and from Moliyur Range. Apart from anti-snare work in Bandipur Tiger Reserve (BTR) and its surrounding area, WTI team is also providing technical assistance to the BTR officials on deploying, collecting and compiling information from camera traps.&nbsp; During current financial year, our team has provided Intelligence and Operational Assistance to Karnataka Forest Department and created a centralised data base. Our team has also gathered data on more than 128 wildlife cases which have been registered by the police in various police stations. </span></li>
<li><span>Our team also aided in the seizure of mongoose hair brushes and mongoose hair in Kochi. Mongooses are protected under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Boxes of hair brushes were seized and suspects arrested.</span></li>
<li>On June 1, 2015, WTI&rsquo;s central India trade control team had assisted the Nagpur Local Crime Branch (LCB) unit of Government Railway Police&nbsp;<br /> (GRP) to seize 98 live black spotted terrapins from two people on a train going from New Delhi to Pondicherry. Out of 98&nbsp;live black spotted terrapins seized, 16 died due to suffocation during transport in the train.&nbsp; During the investigation the team also found out that the animals had been brought from near Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh. The duo was then arrested. The black spotted Terrapin&nbsp;&nbsp; (<em>Geoclemys Hamiltoni</em>) comes under the scheduled I Part II (14-C) of Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.</li>
</ul>
<p>The suspects were residents of Karnataka state, belonging to the Hakki Pikki community. They had both been involved in smuggling for a long time.</p>
<p><span>Our team is also looking into the highly lucrative and highly illegal pangolin and otter trade. The main aspects of the study will include a survey on the distribution pattern of the species and gathering intelligence on suspected poachers&nbsp;</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95914/boxes-of-mongoose-hair-brushes-were-seized-photo-from-p/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/11187/Mongoose_Hair_Kochi_Small.jpg' alt='Boxes of Mongoose Hair Brushes were seized'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Boxes of Mongoose Hair Brushes were seized</i></div></div><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://wti.org.in/NewsLetter.aspx">Sign up for our newsletter to stay updated!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wti.org.in/">To know about more of our projects visit our website</a></li></ul></p></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:22:07 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/11200/proj11187d.html#progressReportLinkAnirudha Majumder2015-08-12T10:22:07Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/11200/proj11187d.html#progressReportLinkHelp 4500 children in India pursue their passion: "Be The Spark!"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/pzh3RGVB6JI/proj13595d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95802/help-4500-children-in-india-pursue-their-passion-photo/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/13595/GG1_Small.jpg' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Every one of us, whether young or old, have our favourite time of the year chalked out mentally. It can be Christmas, or New Year&rsquo;s or simply that mid-year break where we pack our bags to go on a family vacation. For us, the MAD family, the favourite time of the year begins sometime around June every year when we enter our recruitment season.</p>
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<p>In MAD, we believe that even the most vulnerable child should be able to realise equitable outcomes. It is thus increasingly alarming for us that around 95% of the children living in shelter homes drop out even before completing the tenth grade. A bit of retrospection on our own lives made us realise that our lives have been shaped and moulded by the people who came into our lives and started a conversation at the right time- people like our parents, mentors, siblings, friends. Each one of them carried in their words a spark. It was this spark lit the fire of possibilities, of dreams, of hopes and ambitions within us. We deduced that our children in MAD, though supremely talented, drop out mostly because they lack that one sibling or mentor or teacher.</p>
<p>Thus, we issued a clarion call to the thousands of young leaders across 23 countries who can <em>Be the Spark</em> for these children. With this frame of mind, we stepped into recruitment season 2015 to find that untapped potential of the youth which can impact the lives of more than 4000 children across 77 shelters in the country.</p>
<p>&nbsp;The deluge of responses that came our way overwhelmed us. With most of our recruitment complete, we did what we do the best-start our classes and activities in full swing! Be it pinning their dreams on the &lsquo;Dream Wall&rsquo; or making diaries to note their experience, our children to geared up to start a fresh year with us with faces, old and new.</p>
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<p>This new year started not only by expanding our MAD family, but also brought to us some joyous tidings. Every year a worldwide survey that establishes the standards for a great work place is conducted by Great Place to Work&reg;. Their annual research is based on data representing more than 10 million employees in 50 countries representing about 6,000 organizations and every year they release a list of top 100 Great places to work country-wise.</p>
<p>Robert Levering, Co-Founder, Great Place to Work&reg; says, "A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Last year MAD was one of the 700 organizations they surveyed from India and we are ecstatic to let you know that MAD has found its place on the list of "The top 100 Great places to work" in India!</p>
<p><span>The saying goes, &ldquo;All&rsquo;s well that ends well.&rdquo; With the recent developments in MAD, we have truly embraced the belief that when great things happen, it is only bound to get better!</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95803/help-4500-children-in-india-pursue-their-passion-photo/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/13595/GG2_Small.jpg' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95804/help-4500-children-in-india-pursue-their-passion-photo/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/13595/GG3_Small.jpg' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:25:19 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/13600/proj13595d.html#progressReportLinkAditya Surneni2015-08-12T05:25:19Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/13600/proj13595d.html#progressReportLinkRelief Assistance for Tohoku Earthquake Affected: "52 Months on; Continued to Find Missing Persons"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/_C1PdHp1l24/proj7954d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95800/ochakokai-as-a-tea-party-photo-from-progress-report-52/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/7954/Ochakokai_as_it_was_the_tea_party_Small.jpg' alt='Ochakokai as a tea party'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Ochakokai as a tea party</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><strong>52 Months on; Continued Efforts to Find Missing Persons</strong></p>
<p>Four years and four months passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, and efforts to restore crumbled infrastructure including roads and dikes continue in disaster-hit areas. Landscapes have changed accordingly with signs of the damage caused by the earthquake and the tsunami disappeared, leaving less and less traces that reveal the ravage of the disaster.</p>
<p>In the city of Ishinomaki, the worst hit area, as many as 3,453 people lost their lives either directly or indirectly by the disaster and 428 are still missing. Even now the search activities for the missing people are carried out on the 11th of each month.</p>
<p>Combing a vast area for missing persons began this month in Nagatsura district, Ishinomki. The areas situated at the mouth of the Kitakami River, Nagatsura district was inundated due to land sinking subsequent to the earthquake. While the Self-Defense Forces searched the district from boats right after the earthquake, no search activities have been conducted since then. The completion of dike restoration work accelerated the pace of draining the district, and made it possible to conduct full-scale search activities.</p>
<p>The tsunami destroyed dikes and submerged the right section of the Kitakami River&rsquo;s downstream areas including not only Nagatsura district but Okawa district where a total of 2,489 people of 712 households used to live, killing 382 people including 84 pupils and teachers of Okawa elementary school and leaving 36 people including four pupils missing.</p>
<p>Disaster restoration housing is now ready to receive victims living in temporary quarters, signaling post-quake restoration is rolling forward. In this situation JEN continues helping disaster victims find their way back to normal as soon as they can.</p>
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<p><strong>Volunteer Work Turns into a New Style: 16th &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s go to the sea!&rdquo;</strong></p>
<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s go to the sea!&rdquo; a project launched in March 2014 as a new style of volunteer work so that you might support disaster stricken areas while enjoying hands-on opportunities in tour around fishing communities, has been hosted by &ldquo;the executive committee of &lsquo;Let&rsquo;s go to the sea!&rsquo;&ldquo; composed of locals in the Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture with JEN&rsquo;s support.</p>
<p>Supporting &nbsp;the committee become more self-reliant, JEN opted to take only background role in 2015. Pleia Tourism, a non-profit organization established by the students of Ishinomaki Sensyu University, Ishinomaki&rsquo;s only university, began to take part in hosting the project, young people uniting together with locals to promote the communities in the Oshika Peninsula.</p>
<p>The 16th &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s go to the sea!&rdquo; was held on Saturday 23rd of May and following Sunday. Day 1: Ochakokai, a tea party with the staff members of &ldquo;Why not stop by Oshika,&rdquo; a mutual aid organization, at Kyubunhama on the Oshika Peninsula; a visit to eleven headed deity, a national important property. Day 2: fishing experience guided by local fishermen at Sasunohama, participation in the San Juan festival. A lot of plans were worked out at the tour. Participants came from many countries and regions, including, Taiwan, China, Tokyo, Sendai and so on.</p>
<p>The participants were heard to make such comments as &ldquo;I visited many places, met and talked to various people. I&rsquo;m really glad to have this opportunity. This tour offered experiences that I can&rsquo;t have in Tokyo. I had productive two days.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Just wait for the next framework of &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s go to the sea!&rdquo; is finalized by the committee. The committee will take the initiative in planning and running.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95801/fishing-experience-at-sasunohama-photo-from-progress-re/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/7954/Fishing_experience_at_Sasunohama_Small.jpg' alt='Fishing experience at Sasunohama'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Fishing experience at Sasunohama</i></div></div></div>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 02:19:29 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/8000/proj7954d.html#progressReportLinkMiyako Hamasaka2015-08-12T02:19:29Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/8000/proj7954d.html#progressReportLinkSupport 20 Female Entrepreneurs: "A New Toolkit for Women Entrepreneurs in Palestine"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/S_rNHrQJws8/proj9085d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95783/the-homepage-of-the-new-online-toolkit-photo-from-progr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9085/Screen_Shot_20150811_at_5.53.51_PM_Small.png' alt='The homepage of the new online Toolkit'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>The homepage of the new online Toolkit</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>We are excited to announce our&nbsp;newest project to support women entrepreneurs in Palestine: <a href="http://wisetoolkit.tomorrowsyouth.org">TYO's WISE Toolkit</a>! This Toolkit has been designed to&nbsp;target women in&nbsp;Northern Palestine who dream of opening or expanding their own&nbsp;small business. Through our Toolkit, TYO can continue to support and empower even more women entrepreneurs - including outside of the physical TYO Center. The Toolkit takes users through a six-step process&nbsp;similar to the structure of our in-house entrepreneurship programming.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The journey through the Toolkit&nbsp;includes psychosocial assessments &amp; quizzes, business plan development guides, branding &amp; marketing tools, resources for financial services, additional support&nbsp;for micro &amp; small business owners in Palestine, and inspirational stories from TYO's women entrepreneurs. We&nbsp;invite you to take a walk through our <a href="http://wisetoolkit.tomorrowsyouth.org/">Entrepreneurial Toolkit</a>&nbsp;which will provide budding entrepreneurs&nbsp;with the foundational building blocks to start their own successful entrepreneurship journeys.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95784/entrepreneurs-can-learn-how-to-access-capital-photo-fro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9085/Screen_Shot_20150811_at_5.58.51_PM_Small.png' alt='Entrepreneur's can learn how to access capital'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Entrepreneur's can learn how to access capital</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95785/be-inspired-at-the-meet-our-entrepreneurs-page-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/9085/meet_our_entrep_screenshot_Small.JPG' alt='Be inspired at the &quot;Meet Our Entrepreneurs&quot; page'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Be inspired at the &quot;Meet Our Entrepreneurs&quot; page</i></div></div><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://wisetoolkit.tomorrowsyouth.org/">View our live WISE Toolkit</a></li></ul></p></div>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:16:19 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/9100/proj9085d.html#progressReportLinkTala Said2015-08-11T21:16:19Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/9100/proj9085d.html#progressReportLinkGuitars for Kids: "Musical Youth Foundation - August Update"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/7SFQdQGXk68/proj13016d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95688/win-me-cottage-violin-by-brian-gallagher-photo-from-pro/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/13016/Brian_Gallagher_Violin_2014_Small.jpg' alt='Win Me: Cottage Violin by Brian Gallagher'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>Win Me: Cottage Violin by Brian Gallagher</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p><strong>Dear Friend,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Greetings</strong> from Musical Youth Foundation HQ in Dublin, Ireland and<strong> Welcome</strong> to our quarterly Guitars for Kids project update. This is our chance to inform you on how we&rsquo;ve invested your donations, the impact your support is having and of course any other exciting news we&rsquo;ve got to share with you!</p>
<p>While the summer months see most of our weekly music education projects take a short break to coincide with the annual school summer holidays there&rsquo;s no such leisurely break for the team working behind the scenes to keep the Musical Youth Foundation projects alive. While August may be a month off for our students the rest of the team is busy planning events and raising funds for the new term in September. Never an easy task with so many important and deserving charitable causes fighting for your attention and ultimately your vital donations.</p>
<p>Before I reveal our ambitious plans for September and onwards let me give you just a quick overview of how exactly your support has helped vulnerable young children in Ireland over the last few months;</p>
<ul>
<li><strong> </strong><strong>Provided 100 at-risk kids with access to free weekly music education programmes</strong></li>
<li><strong> </strong><strong>Delivered over 266 hours of professional guitar lessons</strong></li>
<li><strong> </strong><strong>Delivered 798 hours of on-site practise sessions</strong></li>
<li><strong> </strong><strong>Delivered 100+ instruments to young people (guitars, bass, drums, keyboards)</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>The impact these lessons and practise sessions are having on the young people we are working with cannot be over stated. For most of the kids we work with the weekly music lessons and practise sessions are the highlight of their week, the only thing they have to look forward to and the only time they&rsquo;ll receive positive praise, feedback and encouragement. The knock-on effect can be seen in all areas of their lives, and in particular with ensuring they remain engaged with the overall education process.</p>
<p>We couldn&rsquo;t have achieved any of this without <strong>YOU!</strong> No really, without your support the charity could not continue to operate &ndash; it&rsquo;s that simple. So on behalf of myself as CEO and from all of our participating students&hellip;<strong>THANK YOU for supporting the Musical Youth Foundation!</strong></p>
<p><strong>And so to the future&hellip;</strong></p>
<p>Our mission has always been relatively simple &ndash; we want to ensure every child in Ireland has access to the life-changing benefits of music education. This will not only help the young people themselves but will have a much wider impact on our community going forward and ultimately make Ireland a better place to live, work and visit!</p>
<p>The last few years have been frustrating to say the least. The economic turmoil has meant a detrimental drop in funding support from all sectors and while we&rsquo;ve got a proven system for helping vulnerable young people the financial support needed has been extremely hard to find. Despite this and with your support we&rsquo;ve managed to do a lot with very little and now as the new school term approaches we want to do even more to help Ireland&rsquo;s at-risk young people.</p>
<p><strong>So what&rsquo;s the plan?</strong></p>
<p>Between now and the end of October we&rsquo;re going to more than double the number of vulnerable young children we support annually by creating an additional ten new Music Education Partnerships around Ireland. That&rsquo;s ten new centres will allow us to help an extra 120 kids and bring the total number of young people we assist to over 220.</p>
<p><strong>So how can you help?</strong></p>
<p>Simple, we need your donations today. Give what you can afford and please give regularly if you can. Every little helps and it all adds up!</p>
<p><strong>A Chance to win...</strong></p>
<p><strong>Please make a donation today</strong> and in return we will enter you in a draw for a unique piece of Instrumental Art (pictured) titled 'Cottage Violin' created by artist Brian Gallagher and valued at &euro;500. +.&nbsp;The draw will take place live on the <a href="http://dublincityfm.ie/soul-kitchen">Soul Kitchen on 103.2 Dublin City FM</a> on Thursday October 8th 2015 at approximately 10.20pm.</p>
<p><strong>Tell a friend...</strong></p>
<p>While your financial support is vital please don't forget the power of your voice. Tell a friend about the work we do, why you have chosen to support our cause and encourage them to help out. There's no better form of advertising than word of mouth and together we can spread our successful music programme across the island of Ireland and make a better future for our nation&rsquo;s children!</p>
<p><strong>A date for your diary&hellip;</strong></p>
<p>On Friday September 4<sup>th</sup> 2015 the Musical Youth Foundation will host an alternative to the annual Electric Picnic music festival by staging a &ldquo;No Tent Required&rdquo; mini music festival in the Grand Social venue at 35 Lower Liffey Street. The event kicks off at 9pm and will include performances from; Fox E &amp; The Good Hands, The Mariannes, Mongrel State, The Scareblues Band, Johnny Rayge and DJ Karl Tsigdinos (River of Soul). Tickets are just &euro;5 and available from the door on the night.</p>
<p>As always I thank you for your support on behalf of the children and welcome any queries you may have. I'm always happy to hear from you, our supporters!</p>
<address>Thanks and best wishes,</address><address>Chris</address><address></address><address>Chris Maher</address><address>Founder &amp; CEO</address><address>Musical Youth Foundation</address><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95689/myf-students-from-dublin-12-photo-from-progress-report/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/13016/Web_Bosco_G4K_Group_1_bw_Small.JPG' alt='MYF students from Dublin 12'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>MYF students from Dublin 12</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95690/myf-students-from-dublin-12-photo-from-progress-report/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/13016/Web_Bosco_G4K_Group_2_bw_Small.JPG' alt='MYF students from Dublin 12'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>MYF students from Dublin 12</i></div></div></div>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:07:48 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/13100/proj13016d.html#progressReportLinkChris Maher2015-08-11T12:07:48Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/13100/proj13016d.html#progressReportLinkImprove cancer care for 250 children in Malawi: "Improving Care for Children with Cancer in Malawi"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/BqAQ1_5z9aM/proj8087d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95691/improve-cancer-care-for-250-children-in-malawi-photo-fr/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/8087/Tenson_Chanvega_Simon_matemba_Limbane_Nasongole__Oscar_Gerard_Small.jpg' alt=''style='margin: 5px;'/></a></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Dear all.</p>
<p>Our project in Malawi continues to progress and we are pleased that more children continue to receive the&nbsp;treatment and care they need.</p>
<p>Some project highlights and achievements from the last three months under the leadership of Professor Molyneux have been:</p>
<ol>
<li>The successful introduction of the web based reporting system for pathology via Newcastle.</li>
<li>The outcome of children with stage 3 and 4 Burkitt lymphoma has improved on the protocol instituted 2 years ago by 20%.</li>
<li>The introduction of systemic antifungals has improved the outcome with infections during intensive phases of treatment.</li>
<li>Regular twinning support and training for local staff</li>
<li>Ongoing patient and family support in the unit</li>
</ol>
<p>Looking ahead:</p>
<ol>
<li>World Child Cancer will visit Malawi next month to work with the team on developing the next 5 year strategic plan for support.</li>
<li>A sponsored trek up Mulanje Mountain will take place in&nbsp;October - Mulanje is a huge block of mountains rising to 3000m above a largely flat plain. Good Luck to them all!</li>
</ol>
<p>It is down to supporters like you that we can continue&nbsp;supporting children with cancer in Malawi.&nbsp;&nbsp;A big Thank You to you all!</p>
<p>Best wishes</p>
<p>World Child Cancer team</p></div>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:56:44 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/8100/proj8087d.html#progressReportLinkJoseph Dixon2015-08-11T09:56:44Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/8100/proj8087d.html#progressReportLinkSupport a Nursery for 150 Children in South Africa: "New jungle gym completed at the creche"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GlobalgivingUK/~3/Dgx0naAvkNE/proj19125d.html
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="/photo/PRA95370/the-new-jungle-gym-at-mmakadi-creche-photo-from-progres/"><img src='https://dpqe0zkrjo0ak.cloudfront.net/pfil/19125/Creche_jungle_gym._Limpopo_Small.jpg' alt='The new jungle gym at Mmakadi Creche'style='margin: 5px;'/></a><br/><div style="text-align: center; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i>The new jungle gym at Mmakadi Creche</i></div></div><div style="overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;"><p>Dear Supporter,&nbsp;</p>
<p><span>The facilities are very basic here at the Mmakadi Creche in rural Limpopo, South Africa and it is our goal to improve the infrastructure and recourses. We believe that giving children a safe, fun and stimulating environment is important. The construction of the jungle gym in the playground of the cr&egrave;che does just that. It offers a fun and safe environment for the children to play in.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>When GVI first started working with the Mmakadi Creche there were no nice areas for the children to play in and no equipment or toys to stimulate them. The jungle gym is going to be a big improvement, providing the children with a safe and fun environment to play in. It will stimulate them to play physically and gain strength and coordination and will also stimulate social interaction&nbsp;in a different setting and with their peers.</p>
<p>Another positive impact is that the jungle gym will make the cr&egrave;che a much more popular destination for children. We hope that this will inadvertently&nbsp;promote the cr&egrave;che in the local community, which is a local service provided by local women.</p>
<p>The cr&egrave;che is an important haven for the children&nbsp;because most mothers in the community have to go out to work. The cr&egrave;che provides a safe place for the children during the day, and somewhere that they can begin the early stages of learning.</p>
<p>Thank you for your donations, without them projects like this would not be possible.</p>
<p>With Gratitude,&nbsp;</p>
<p>GVI- Limpopo</p><p><b>Links:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.gvi.org">The Charitable Trust</a></li></ul></p></div>Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:21:49 GMThttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/19200/proj19125d.html#progressReportLinkKate Robey2015-08-06T12:21:49Zhttp://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/19200/proj19125d.html#progressReportLink